12 Friday, January 28, 1983 THE DETROIT. JEWISH NEWS Natan Zach Noted Poet With extreme pride we wish to announce the creation of it the moss school "a community of children" Gary Moss, Shelly Moss, with a staff of other creative educators provide a developmental educational program for children grades K-6, beginning with the next school year, September 1983. The Moss School will be housed in our North Campus facility at 4150 Middlebelt Road, W. Bloomfield, MI. Our highly individualized approach will focus on caring, motivation, building positive self-concepts, andfocusing in on special needs and abilities. The academic content will include: • Reading • Science • Mathematics • Health Education • Social Studies • Foreign Language • Computer Science • Geography • Art & Graphics • Personal Growth • Music Registr=ation forms are now available. For further information call 851-2071. Israel's poets are among the nation's cultural war- riors. They represent the in- terpreters of their people's joys as well as agonies. They are among the masters who represent the emphasis on the ethical codes, and they echo the historical aspects of a people's continuity which is imbedded in revi- val as well as the record of an unending national ex- perience. Natan Zach is one of such giants. He is the iconoclast, the spokesman for modernism in Hebraic lore. There is emphasis on this in his collected poems, "The Static Element" (Atheneum). Final Sellout on the last remaining units ktewood/L. Poinic CONDOMINIUMS name your price no reasonable offer refused J. Singer and Sons offers Luxury Condominium 2 story Townhouses in Ridgewood Pointe, West Bloomfield —S/E Corner of Walnut Lake Rd & Drake. Approximately 2500 Sq.Ft. units completely finished with landscaping, sprinkling system, redwood decks, air-conditioning and all the extras—Ready to Move In!! 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Returning to Israel in 1979, he is presently teach- ing at Haifa University. The recognition he at- tained in Israel is seen in his having been awarded the Bialik Prize in 1981. Notable among his ex- pressive poems now in English translation is "To a Student in Jerusalem." When God First Said When God first said Let there be light He meant it would not be dark for Him. In that moment He didn't think about the sky, but the trees already were filling with water, the birds receiving air and body. Then the first wind touched God's eyes and He saw it in ' all His glory and thought It is good. He didn't think then about people, people in their multitude, but they already were standing apart from the fig leaves, unraveling in their hearts a scheme about pain. When God first thought of night He didn't think about sleep. So be it, God said, I will be happy. But they were multitudes. A native of Berlin, Zach went to England, earning came to Israel at the age of his doctorate at the Univer- five in 1935. He was closely sity of Essex in 1968. Dur- associated with the Israeli ing those years he was the theater until 1967 and has London correspondent and translated some of the most editor for the Jewish Tele- important productions. He graphic Agency. To a Student in Jerusalem The small, stifling room follows ten steep, iron steps, followed by a sharp, hot splinter of moon. And in between, sticky light as if smeared on walls by the hamsin*, too listless even to stir the laundry hanging from the tenements. The echo of each movement returns you to yourself—vague silhouette—as to a lullaby. You remember and accept again the body on the chair, head leaning on the table, a finger in the dust of darkness. This is the breathing space between one solitude and another, an oppressive reading in a book that recedes from you—from this momentary rest between demand and slackness—moving out into the open night that knows you instantly by your hesitations. *hamsin: a hot, dry and oppressive wind of the Middle East. Translator Peter Ever- taken in by conventions of wine notes with deep appre- sentiment or piety. ciation a preface impres- "A tenacious ironist, de- sively evaluative of Zach, eply aware of human isola- stating: tion and the elaborate illu- "The poems of Natan sions we construct as our Zach share something of the refuges (the refuge of poetry astringent style that has included), his characteristic become familiar in the dis- attitude is 'Be careful . . . tressed literature of post- Don't expect.' His reticence war modernism. Having becomes a way of holding been subjected to extraordi- things in check, an integrity nary historical pressures, that is both a literary posi- they are guarded in tone, tion and a personal response oblique, frequently satiric to experience." and pointed with wit, delib- Such is the genius of an erately reductive. eminent poet who now is " 'It's the salt in me that certain to be welcomed talks,' Zach says in one of among the admired cultural his poems, a distillation leaders who shed glory on clearly antidotal to the Israel and the Jewish overtly national and people. ideological poetry that, in his words, had satisfied 'a Many Protesters previous generation's TEL AVIV (JTA) — One thirtst for grand certain- Israeli in five has taken part ties.' " in a demonstration, accord- "There are few certain- ing to a study undertaken ties, grand or otherwise, to by Bar-Ilan University pro- hold fast to in his work. To fessor Shmuel Lehman. follow the movement of a It showed that 21 percent Zach poem is to' follow a of all Israelis had demon- nervous and analytical in- strated, compared with 11 telligence that refuses to be percent in the U.S.